Freedman Lecture 2019 - Words Matter: Speech on Campus

Event Details

April 12, 201911:30 am-1:00 pm

Integrative Learning Center

Room: S350

UMass Amherst Campus

Handicap access available

Free admission

One of the central tensions facing colleges today is balancing free speech rights with the need for respect and inclusion in a campus community. This roundtable features three leading scholars of hate crime, the First Amendment, and law and politics as they discuss their diverse perspectives on rights and responsibilities in a campus community, with the goal of better understanding how to balance this delicate tension.

The panel will include:

Lucy Dalglish, Dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland

Jeannine Bell, Richard S. Melvin Professor of Law at Indiana University Bloomington

Ryan Owens, Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin – Madison

Directions:

The Integrative Learning Center is located in the center of campus, between the campus pond and the Campus Center.